The first night sailing home went quite calmly and at the moment the Drake Passage seems to about the same, maybe a bit calmer than our trip to the south over a week ago. Now we have to fill in the days on the ship, so we'll have a few photography sessions and I'll see if I can finish off a couple books, as well as to continue to sort out my photos of which I have taken over 5,000 so far. I've thrown out quite a few as some of the ones taken from the zodiacs end up having focus problems or someone stands up in front of you while trying to take a photo. I've generally left on Continuous shooting mode for when there is wildlife around, so I generally end with at least two photos of everything.
After lunch we have a mini-Australia Day celebration in the Observation Deck, with some munchies, an Australian flag "Borrowed" from the captain and some Australian Crawl playing in the background. Then its a relatively lazy afternoon reading and organising photos before the dail y recap and Briefing which is followed by dinner. The chef had organised Pavlova for dessert and we had a chorus of Waltzing Matilda and rousing cheer of Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Ooi, Ooi, Ooi. Dinner lasted a while as we sat around chatting, before finally heading off to bed.
The seas were still fairly gentle overnight and seemed even calmer the next day. I'm not even feeling the need for Kwells. Today is our last day at sea, so its time to start packing our bags and making sure everything is organised for disembarkation tomorrow morning about 8am. We are having a final photography get together this morning to handle any last minute questions as well to look at a slide show that Michael has prepared showing all the high points of the trip so far. After lunch we had a lazy afternoon reading, snoozing, and starting to pack our bags. At the final briefing session they had a great presentation of some of the photos taken over the duration of trip as well as hints on how to fold the big yellow jackets, so that they fit into out luggage. Then there was a final cocktail party, followed by dinner and a chat in the bar with our fellow travellers, before a reasonably early night in bed. At this stage we were well in the lee of South America so the seas were very calm and no one seemed to be suffering from sea sickness. Tomorrow would be an early rise as we leave the boat in Ushuaia and start out journey home.
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